Alpha TLM Product Analyst, Assistant Vice President

State Street • Quincy, MA

11d • $80,000 - $140,000

About The Position

State Street’s Alpha Services Solutioning and Product Team is looking for an Alpha TLM Product Analyst-Transaction Lifecycle Management, Assistant Vice President. This qualified individual will design and deliver product, identify and analyze business requirements focusing on strategic solutions for our Alpha clients. This individual will be responsible to analyze projects for Transaction lifecycle management – covering Front, middle and back office and building partnership with client/business and IT teams to align Alpha end to end product goals Why this job is important to us State Street Alpha brings together data and capabilities across the investment lifecycle to help our clients make better decisions, grow at scale, and deliver returns for their clients. We partner with clients to optimize their operations, data, and technology footprint by leveraging the Alpha Platform and outsourced Alpha Services. The successful candidate must be skilled in analyzing our complex business service flows across front, middle, and back office operating models for our Alpha Clients, with focus on post-trade execution lifecycle product and services. Individual will collaborate across business teams, technology service teams and key stakeholders to ensure that the business functions of the delivered solution match our client requirements.

Requirements

• Prior experience of working on large-scale, enterprise business and technology transformation programs
• Good understanding of business systems, financial industry, and system development lifecycle methodologies to support projects through their life cycle, with the emphasis on the analysis stage
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate, and collaborate across business and technical teams
• Excellent time management and organization skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities
• Ability to think creatively and strategically with a focus on achieving outcomes
• Expertise in MS Office including MS Visio, MS/Project and PowerPoint
• Competency in SDLC & Agile Methodology and tools (i.e. JIRA, Rally, RTC)
• Soft skills attributes- Teamwork, problem-solving, Adaptability, Empathy towards teammates, collaboration/effective communication
• A BA/BS degree in a business including Finance, Economics, Engineering or Computer Science.
• Minimum 5 to 7 years’ experience as business analyst or related experience, driving solution design and successful executions of complex projects
• Microsoft office tools expertise must- MS Visio, Excel and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

• Perform gap assessment, requirements gathering and solution design for clients migrating from legacy platforms to the Alpha standard offerings
• Act as liaison between business and technology teams to support product analysis and facilitate design discussions as part of the Transaction Management product strategy and development
• Experienced in driving analysis, design and delivery of transactional data and processing platform using Agile practices and processes, with a focus of establishing continuous delivery, culture, and process
• Create detailed and accurate documentation of business requirements, process flows, and project deliverables including project charter deck, architecture diagrams, project tracker, RAID log, business requirements features
• Gathering of business/system requirements by facilitating user/client meetings, interviewing users, and researching and resolving issues
• Work with our business partners, perform/lead initial analysis of the request and provide assessment and gather estimation of the effort
• Identify compile, analyze and document business requirements that accurately and thoroughly reflect business needs
• Aware of Agile process is strongly recommended (RTC, story writing, Scrum and/or Kanban)
• Required working knowledge of financial products Bonds, Equities, FX orders/executions, listed derivatives and others
• Participate in special projects, e.g., conducting research, collecting, and providing requested data, etc.

Benefits

• Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level